This release is the fourth separate release of the OpenSS7 STREAMS ISDN package. Some of the
components in this package were formerly present in the strss7 package. Various networking
drivers are provided as well as CDI, DLPI, NPI, TPI and CCI header files for ISDN operation. The
package contains the necessary manual pages and other documentation for ISDN components in a
separate autoconf tarball.

This is the fourth open source release of the OpenSS7 STREAMS ISDN package. This
release contains modules and drivers formerly only available with Commercial releases of the
strss7 package and which are only recently available as open source with the release of
this package.

With OpenSS7 Master Package release openss7-0.9.2.D, the ISDN components were separated
from the strss7 package and placed in this package. Not all of the ISDN components
previously part of the strss7 package have been strapped into this release. Components
will be re-validated against Linux Fast-STREAMS on a module-by-module and driver-by-driver basis.
See TODO in the release, or Schedule, in
the manual, for information about the release schedule.

This is a maintenance release providing support for additional distributions and tool chains.

Major features since the last public release are as follows:

Minor documentation corrections.

Kernel module license made explicit GPL v2. And then changed back to GPL.

License upgrade to AGPL Version 3.

Modifications to build under Fedora 2.6.22.5-49 kernel. These changes also support 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 kernel.

Ability to strap out major documentation build and installation primarily for embedded targets.

Improvements to common build process for embedded and cross-compile targets.

Modifications to build under Fedora 2.6.25-45.fc9 and 2.6.26.5-45.fc9 kernels.

Updated tool chain to m4-1.4.12, autoconf-2.63 and texinfo-4.13.

Conversion of RPM spec files to common approach for major subpackages.

Updated references database for manual pages and roff documents.

Build system now builds yum(8) repositories for RPMs and apt-get(8) repositories for DEBs. Installation documentation has been updated to include details of repository install sourcesref.

Added MODULE_VERSION to all modules and drivers.

This is a public alpha release of the package.
Please see README-alpha in the
release.

As with other OpenSS7 releases, this release configures, compiles, installs and builds RPMs and DEBs
for a wide range of Linux 2.4 and 2.6 RPM- and DPKG-based distributions,
and can be used on production kernels without patching or recompiling the kernel.

The OpenSS7 Project
is an opensource development project (called OpenSS7) to provide a robust and GPL'ed SS7, SIGTRAN,
ISDN and VoIP signalling stack for Linux and other UN*X operating systems.
The OpenSS7 Project
has existed in one form or another since 1996. For dowloads and further information, see the
project website.